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Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian in c/technology
[–] desmosthenes 5 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

the extensions mostly

Basic courtesy in c/[email protected]
[–] desmosthenes 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

always and forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKAVPLgPrI

Internal DOGE documents lay out plans for 'Phase 3' to begin on Wednesday: report in c/[email protected]
It's all you need, really. in c/gaming
[–] desmosthenes 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that’s a lot of stems

Apple Intelligence might turn itself back on with the latest software updates in c/apple_enthusiast
[–] desmosthenes 2 points 1 week ago

sold! as long as everything works in dev world and video / audio / wifi ^^

Apple Intelligence might turn itself back on with the latest software updates in c/apple_enthusiast
[–] desmosthenes 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

do you run this on m processor hardware..? asking for a friend lol

Facebook Illegally Downloaded ALOT of Books... in c/videos
Do you pre-order digital games? If so, why? in c/[email protected]
[–] desmosthenes 5 points 2 weeks ago

never

[Announcement] A Message to Path of Exile 1 Players in c/[email protected]
[–] desmosthenes 1 points 3 weeks ago

good time to catch up on the old steam library

Berserk Manga Return After 3-Month Hiatus on February 14 in c/berserk
EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app in c/[email protected]
[–] desmosthenes 1 points 1 month ago

just not interested in going through extra hoops for maybe 1-2 games I haven’t played in half a decade lol

EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app in c/[email protected]
[–] desmosthenes 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

big nope

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Supermaven: NeoVim/VSCode/Zed/JetBrains, Fastest/Best Context Aware 'Copilot' (supermaven.com)
 

Massive context window, free tier, suuuuuuuper fast. So far the best copilot I've tested; highly recommended.

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A great set of optimizations for Firefox; Highly Recommended (github.com)
 

GitHub Maintained GitHub Maintained Visitors

Betterfox

31% faster than regular Firefox1 :rocket:

about:config tweaks to enhance Mozilla Firefox.

:new: Now with ESR support.

Made for everyday browsing

A secure, blazing fast browsing experience. Without breakage.

Betterfox is an opinionated preference list inspired by the law of diminishing returns and the minimum effective dose.

Required reading

If you don't have it already: Get Firefox

  1. Create a backup profile.
  2. Download the user.js file here (Right click > Save Link As…).
  3. Review Common Overrides and make any necessary changes.
  4. Open Firefox. In the URL bar, type about:profiles and press Enter.
  5. For the profile you want to use (or use default), click Open Folder in the Root Directory section.
  6. Move the user.js file into the folder.

After restarting Firefox:

  1. Get an ad blocker like uBlock Origin with our recommended filters.
  2. Enable DNS-level protection with NextDNS. Use the link and support this page!
    • Check out our configuration guide for the best experience.
    • See how to quickly enable secure DNS in Firefox.

Simple goals

  1. Minimalism: get what isn't needed out of the way
  2. Efficiency: unleash Firefox's ability to be fast and performant
  3. Privacy: protect your data without causing site breakage

Simple configs

Fastfox, Securefox, Peskyfox, and Smoothfox are guides to settings within Firefox.

The user.js — a configuration file that controls Firefox settings — is curated from these guides.

List Description
Fastfox Increase Firefox's browsing speed. Give Chrome a run for its money!
Securefox Protect user data without causing site breakage.
Peskyfox Provide a clean, distraction-free browsing experience.
Smoothfox Get Edge-like smooth scrolling on your favorite browser — or choose something more your style.
user.js All the essentials. None of the breakage. This is your user.js.

Recognition

Browser Integration

YouTube

Podcasts

Articles

Guides

Reviews

  • “I use this one ... The performance is absolutely amazing. There’s definitely a huge difference when it comes to loading sites.” - DIRIKtv
  • "BetterFox ... will provide good-enough privacy and help with performance." - Qdoit12Super
  • "...drastically changed the experience with Firefox for me. Improved speed, security, smoothness, and removed clutter." - AppDate
  • "Firefox with uBlock Origin extension and tuned with Betterfox is faster than Safari." - cugeloid
  • "I don't think I could use Firefox without Betterfox." - Professional_Fun4616
  • "The best collection of tweaks available." - AuRiMaS
  • "FF is now much snappier!" - whotheff
  • "...the experience is so good now I don’t think I’ll go back to any of the chromium based browsers." - Mr_Compromise

Support

If you like the project, leave a :star: (top right) and become a stargazer!

Stargazers repo roster for @yokoffing/Betterfox

Credit

  • Betterfox mirrors the ongoing work provided by arkenfox. Additionally, this repository includes content reproduced or adapted from other sources. Credit for overlapping material goes to the original authors.
  • Appreciation goes to the Firefox team and developers working on Bugzilla, fighting for the open web.
  • A special thanks to Alex Kontos of Waterfox for his collaboration in v.116.
  • Many thanks to the 2021 Ghostery team for testing Betterfox at scale in its early days.
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Simple, Effective DotFiles Manager & Sync (github.com)
 

been using this for some time; must say its a joy to use to keep settings and configs synced across machines/servers.

Mackup

Keep your application settings in sync.

Table of content

Quickstart

If you have Dropbox installed and want to use it to save your config files, that's super easy.

On macOS, if you want an easy install, you can install Homebrew and do:

# Install Mackup
brew install mackup

# Launch it and back up your files
mackup backup

If not running macOS, or you don't like Homebrew, you can use pip.

Note: The below command will check if a previous version of Mackup is already installed on your system. If this is the case, it will be upgraded to the latest version.

# Install Mackup with PIP
pip install --upgrade mackup

# Launch it and back up your files
mackup backup

On Ubuntu, pip will install to the current user's home directory rather than system-wide. Because of this, when installing pip on Ubuntu you will need to run pip install with the --system flag as well (on other platforms this is not needed)

You're all set and constantly backed up from now on.

Next, on any new workstation, do:

# Install Mackup
brew install mackup

# Launch it and restore your files
mackup restore

Done!

You can find more detailed instructions in INSTALL.md.

Usage

mackup backup

Backup your application settings.

mackup restore

Restore your application settings on a newly installed workstation.

mackup uninstall

Copy back any synced config file to its original place.

mackup list

Display the list of applications supported by Mackup.

mackup -h

Get some help, obviously...

What does it do

  • Back ups your application settings in a safe directory (e.g. Dropbox)
  • Syncs your application settings among all your workstations
  • Restores your configuration on any fresh install in one command line

By only tracking pure configuration files, it keeps the crap out of your freshly new installed workstation (no cache, temporary and locally specific files are transfered).

Mackup makes setting up the environment easy and simple, saving time for your family, great ideas, and all the cool stuff you like.

Bullsh*t, what does it really do to my files

Let's take git as an example. Your settings for git are saved in your home folder, in the .gitconfig file.

Backup

If you have Dropbox, these things happen when you launch mackup backup:

  1. cp ~/.gitconfig ~/Dropbox/Mackup/.gitconfig
  2. rm ~/.gitconfig
  3. ln -s ~/Dropbox/Mackup/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig

Now your git config is always backed up and up to date on all your workstations.

Restore

When you launch mackup restore, here's what it's really doing:

  1. ln -s ~/Dropbox/Mackup/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig

That's it, you got your git config setup on your new workstation.

mackup does the same for any supported application.

Uninstall

You can revert all your files to their original state.

# Just run this
mackup uninstall

This will remove the symlinks and copy back the files from the Mackup folder in Dropbox to their original places in your home. The Mackup folder and the files in it stay put, so that any other computer also running Mackup is unaffected.

Supported Storages

See the README file in the doc directory for more info.

Unsupported Storages

Supported Applications

Can you support application X

We can with your help ;)

Personalization & configuration

Have an application that shouldn't be generally supported but that you use? Or a cool file you want to sync?

Why did you do this

Yesterday, I had a talk with Zach Zaro, complaining about the pain it is to reconfigure our Macbook each time we get a new one or install from scratch. That's a talk we have already had months ago.

I change my workstation every X months. Each time I either lose my apps' configurations, or I just waste a bunch of hours getting setup like I was on my old box. I also spend a lot of time reconfiguring the same stuff again on all my workstations (home, work).

Boring...

Some people tried to solve the problem on the application layer, like Github's Boxen, but it solves a different problem, from my point of view. I don't spend a lot of time installing or downloading stuff. I spend time configuring it.

For years, I've used a personal shell script that was copying known config files into Subversion, Git or Dropbox, and linked them into my home. But I felt a lot of us had the same problem: Making a more generic tool could help others and I could get help from others to support more apps in the tool.

So here comes Mackup, the little tool that will sync all your application configs to Dropbox (or Google Drive, or anything).

And it's GPL, of course.

What platforms are supported

  • macOS
  • GNU/Linux

What's up with the weird name

Mackup is just a portmanteau of Mac and Backup. It is simple, short, and easy to remember, and it corresponds with the whole idea of Mackup: the simpler – the better! (And I suck at naming stuff, but who doesn't.)

Where can I find more information

In the doc directory.

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Nerd Fonts (www.nerdfonts.com)
submitted 8 months ago by desmosthenes to c/pcmasterrace
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Just thought Nerd Fonts should get some more love & attention

Nerd Fonts patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons). Specifically to add a high number of extra glyphs from popular ‘iconic fonts’ such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.

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startyparty (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by desmosthenes to c/unixporn
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hey everyone - made a start page extension/site thats focused on latest media and content. its available as an extension on https://marketing.startyparty.dev - it always fetches the latest news, lemmy, mastodon (journalists), music, videos, podcasts, twitch, steam launcher/news, browser game (play games in the browser), links, search, etc. has a bunch of keybound shortcuts for keyboard warriors too. hope some of y'all find it useful / enjoy ^^

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Dream Machine (lumalabs.ai)
 

fairly impressive short video clip generation

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startyparty - built on next14 (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by desmosthenes to c/nextjs
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i built this clean media focused content aggregator startpage extension (replaces blank new windows/tabs in browsers) https://startyparty.dev

startyparty is a dynamic start page extension for your browser, incorporating the latest articles, media, tech, games, features and content.

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startyparty (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16180693

i built this clean startpage extension (replaces blank new windows/tabs in browsers) and i just wanted to spread the word: https://marketing.startyparty.dev (this is the marketing site), explains what it is and all that.

startyparty is a dynamic start page extension for your browser, incorporating the latest articles, media, tech, games, features and content. the app itself is available directly at: https://startyparty.dev

would love some feedback on it! sry for the shilling; just proud of her.

the discord is here if you wanna show some love or say what's up: https://discord.gg/RN2CeJZ4a6

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startyparty (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by desmosthenes to c/startpage
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i built this clean startpage extension (replaces blank new windows/tabs in browsers) and i just wanted to spread the word: https://marketing.startyparty.dev (this is the marketing site), explains what it is and all that.

startyparty is a dynamic start page extension for your browser, incorporating the latest articles, media, tech, games, features and content. the app itself is available directly at: https://startyparty.dev

would love some feedback on it! sry for the shilling; just proud of her.

the discord is here if you wanna show some love or say what's up: https://discord.gg/RN2CeJZ4a6

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Python Bindings for llama.cpp (github.com)
 

Simple Python bindings for @ggerganov's llama.cpp library. This package provides:

Low-level access to C API via ctypes interface.
High-level Python API for text completion
    OpenAI-like API
    LangChain compatibility
    LlamaIndex compatibility
OpenAI compatible web server
    Local Copilot replacement
    Function Calling support
    Vision API support
    Multiple Models

Documentation is available at https://llama-cpp-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest.

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Codeium - Copilot competitor (codeium.com)
 

“The most intelligent AI code generation tool out there and we have the data to prove it.”

been using for a few weeks; it’s quite competitive to copilot only coming shy of supermaven in speed and performance

https://codeium.com/blog/code-assistant-comparison-copilot-tabnine-ghostwriter-codeium

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startyparty - extensión and new site (marketing.startyparty.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by desmosthenes to c/startpage
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launched a new extension and now marketing site to pair - hope yall like it

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